SANTA MONICA, CA — A Santa Monica man was sentenced Friday to two years and three months in federal prison for doxxing and harassing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney.
Gregory John Curcio, 69, was sentenced after pleading guilty in June to one count of violating a federal law protecting individuals performing certain official duties.
In February 2025, Curcio created a Facebook post identifying the attorney as an ICE agent, publishing her home address and directing others to "swat" her, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said he also posted her home address on another social media account he controlled, again with instructions to swat her.
Swatting is a form of harassment that often involves making a false emergency report intended to trigger a significant law enforcement response at a person's home or another location.
The posts were part of what authorities described as a years-long campaign of harassment against the attorney's family. Patch previously reported that the federal criminal complaint alleged Curcio posted about the attorney on X, calling her the "wicked Ice Queen of Homeland Security."
Curcio previously lived on the same floor as the attorney's mother in a Santa Monica apartment building, according to the complaint. The attorney told authorities she had never met Curcio, but prosecutors alleged he had harassed and threatened her mother for years.
The complaint alleged Curcio was captured on surveillance video spraying pepper spray on the mother's doorknob in November 2024 and had previously asked her, "What would you do if someone threw acid in your face?" Prosecutors also alleged Curcio began sending harassing emails to the attorney's husband's work account and calling his work phone in January 2024.
"Contrary to what some misguided individuals think, doxxing federal agents and employees is not a harmless crime," then-Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said when Curcio was arrested. "It endangers the agent's personal safety and that of their family. It's also a federal crime."
Curcio had faced a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Michelle Williams Court imposed the 27-month sentence Friday.
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